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Photos: Animal shots of the week

Bear cubs frolic in the sun, alpacas get new summer haircuts, a soldier and dog are reunited and an abandoned animal finds a new home - it's all in this week's animal gallery.

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Walter Bieri

Three young bears sit in their enclosure in the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, as their mother Barba watches, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Walter Bieri

Three young bears swim in their enclosure , at the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Walter Bieri

Three young bears walk in their enclosure at the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Steffen Schmidt

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) play in their enclosure at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Steffen Schmidt

Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) cubs play in their enclosure at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Ginger Perry

Josiah Velasquez 2 is about to give a big hug to his grandmother Linda Doner's unsuspecting dog, "Dog" who was sunning itself during a Monday May 13, 2013 outing in Jim Barnett Park in Winchester, Va.. (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Ginger Perry)

Efrem Lukatsky

Oleksiy Pinko, a circus artist, dances with a lion during presentation of the new program in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Kerstin Joensson

A freshly shorn alpaca sits on a field at Alpaca-Land farm in Obertrum in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Tuesday May, 14, 2013. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Kerstin Joensson

A freshly shorn alpaca walks on a field at Alpaca-Land farm in Obertrum in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Tuesday May, 14, 2013. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Skip O'Rourke

A black bear sits in a tree in 70-year-old Eloy Perez's back yard Friday morning, May 17, 2013 in Tampa, Fla. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Perez discovered the bear in his backyard when he went to let his dog out. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies and wildlife officials shot the bear with tranquilizer darts. After two darts he fell from the tree onto pads set out to cushion his fall. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Skip O'Rourke)

David McFadden

A stray dog walks alongside a leatherback turtle preparing to bury her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. When local conservation efforts started here in the early 1990s, locals say a maximum of 30 turtles emerged from the surf overnight during the peak of the six-month nesting season. Now, at Grande Riviere and in the eastern community of Matura, where another major leatherback colony has grown, locals say more than 700 of the critically endangered sea turtles appear overnight at the height of the nesting season. (AP Photo/David McFadden)

Damaske, Jim

Clearwater Marine Aquarium's dolphin Winter checks out Fabien Cousteau as sun glints off Cousteau's lens Thursday May 17, 2013 as he tries to make a picture of Winter during a visit with the tail-less dolphin before a dedication and naming ceremony of the new R.O. Jacobson Center for Education and Animal Care at the aquarium facility on Island Estates Florida. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Jim Damaske)

Jens Meyer

A seven weeks old ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) climbs in its enclosure in the Zoo in Erfurt, central Germany, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Pongo, a male Orang-Utan of the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, reacts in his enclosure Wednesday May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Friso Gentsch)

Jens Meyer

Seven weeks old ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) twins take a ride on the back of their mother 'Lobatse', center, in the Zoo in Erfurt, central Germany, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

BISWARANJAN ROUT

A langur baby looks out resting in the lap of its mother at the Khandagiri cave hills in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

Charlie Neibergall

Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony, Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Gundlach thought he was traveling to the Iowa Capitol to tell state officials why he should take ownership of the dog, which has been working for the state fire marshal's office. Gundlach didn't realize officials already had made arrangements to get another dog for explosives detection. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Michael Dwyer

Omar Raoui, 3, of Boston, reacts to the seals at New England Aquarium in Boston, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

David Duprey

Luna, a resident polar bear cub, jumps in the water during a news conference at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Luna will be the playmate for Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub from Alaska, until a permanent home is located. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

John Gomes

In this undated handout photo provided by John Gomes, photographer for the Alaska Zoo, is Kali, a polar bear cub orphaned when its mother was killed by a hunter in northwest Alaska. The cub arrived at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo N.Y., on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alaska Zoo, John Gomes)

Vadim Ghirda

A cat rubs his head against a wall, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ryan Evon

Odessa Animal Control Officer Ken Vogel holds a peahen Tuesday, May 14, 2013, that he caught in Odessa, Texas. Vogel said the bird will be put up for adoption for residents in Ector County--but not the city of Odessa, because owning the bird in city limits is unlawful. (AP Photo/Odessa American, Ryan Evon)

Dan Coyro

Paul Houghtaling of the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project holds upright the head of a tranquilized young male mountain lion found in an aqueduct near downtown Santa Cruz, Calif., Thursday, May 16, 2013. The lion was unable to get out of the concrete walled aqueduct and had to be shot with two tranquilizer darts before being measured, examined, tagged, collared and finally released into the mountains above Santa Cruz. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Sentinel, Dan Coyro)

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Walter Bieri

Three young bears sit in their enclosure in the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, as their mother Barba watches, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Walter Bieri

Three young bears swim in their enclosure , at the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Walter Bieri

Three young bears walk in their enclosure at the wildlife park Langenberg in Langnau am Albis, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The cubs are now 4 months old. (AP Photo/Keystone,Walter Bieri)

Steffen Schmidt

Gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) play in their enclosure at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Steffen Schmidt

Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) cubs play in their enclosure at the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt)

Ginger Perry

Josiah Velasquez 2 is about to give a big hug to his grandmother Linda Doner's unsuspecting dog, "Dog" who was sunning itself during a Monday May 13, 2013 outing in Jim Barnett Park in Winchester, Va.. (AP Photo/The Winchester Star, Ginger Perry)

Efrem Lukatsky

Oleksiy Pinko, a circus artist, dances with a lion during presentation of the new program in Ukraine's National Circus in Kiev, Ukraine on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Kerstin Joensson

A freshly shorn alpaca sits on a field at Alpaca-Land farm in Obertrum in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Tuesday May, 14, 2013. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Kerstin Joensson

A freshly shorn alpaca walks on a field at Alpaca-Land farm in Obertrum in the Austrian province of Salzburg, Tuesday May, 14, 2013. The annual shearing is done in the spring to make the animals more comfortable for the summer months. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Skip O'Rourke

A black bear sits in a tree in 70-year-old Eloy Perez's back yard Friday morning, May 17, 2013 in Tampa, Fla. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Perez discovered the bear in his backyard when he went to let his dog out. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies and wildlife officials shot the bear with tranquilizer darts. After two darts he fell from the tree onto pads set out to cushion his fall. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Skip O'Rourke)

David McFadden

A stray dog walks alongside a leatherback turtle preparing to bury her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. When local conservation efforts started here in the early 1990s, locals say a maximum of 30 turtles emerged from the surf overnight during the peak of the six-month nesting season. Now, at Grande Riviere and in the eastern community of Matura, where another major leatherback colony has grown, locals say more than 700 of the critically endangered sea turtles appear overnight at the height of the nesting season. (AP Photo/David McFadden)

Damaske, Jim

Clearwater Marine Aquarium's dolphin Winter checks out Fabien Cousteau as sun glints off Cousteau's lens Thursday May 17, 2013 as he tries to make a picture of Winter during a visit with the tail-less dolphin before a dedication and naming ceremony of the new R.O. Jacobson Center for Education and Animal Care at the aquarium facility on Island Estates Florida. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Jim Damaske)

Jens Meyer

A seven weeks old ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) climbs in its enclosure in the Zoo in Erfurt, central Germany, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Pongo, a male Orang-Utan of the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, reacts in his enclosure Wednesday May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/dpa,Friso Gentsch)

Jens Meyer

Seven weeks old ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) twins take a ride on the back of their mother 'Lobatse', center, in the Zoo in Erfurt, central Germany, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

BISWARANJAN ROUT

A langur baby looks out resting in the lap of its mother at the Khandagiri cave hills in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

Charlie Neibergall

Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach, of Madison, Wisc., gets a kiss from Casey, a four-year-old yellow labrador that he worked with while deployed in Afghanistan, as the two are reunited during a surprise ceremony, Friday, May 17, 2013, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Gundlach thought he was traveling to the Iowa Capitol to tell state officials why he should take ownership of the dog, which has been working for the state fire marshal's office. Gundlach didn't realize officials already had made arrangements to get another dog for explosives detection. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Michael Dwyer

Omar Raoui, 3, of Boston, reacts to the seals at New England Aquarium in Boston, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

David Duprey

Luna, a resident polar bear cub, jumps in the water during a news conference at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Luna will be the playmate for Kali, an orphaned polar bear cub from Alaska, until a permanent home is located. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

John Gomes

In this undated handout photo provided by John Gomes, photographer for the Alaska Zoo, is Kali, a polar bear cub orphaned when its mother was killed by a hunter in northwest Alaska. The cub arrived at the Buffalo Zoo in Buffalo N.Y., on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Alaska Zoo, John Gomes)

Vadim Ghirda

A cat rubs his head against a wall, in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ryan Evon

Odessa Animal Control Officer Ken Vogel holds a peahen Tuesday, May 14, 2013, that he caught in Odessa, Texas. Vogel said the bird will be put up for adoption for residents in Ector County--but not the city of Odessa, because owning the bird in city limits is unlawful. (AP Photo/Odessa American, Ryan Evon)

Dan Coyro

Paul Houghtaling of the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project holds upright the head of a tranquilized young male mountain lion found in an aqueduct near downtown Santa Cruz, Calif., Thursday, May 16, 2013. The lion was unable to get out of the concrete walled aqueduct and had to be shot with two tranquilizer darts before being measured, examined, tagged, collared and finally released into the mountains above Santa Cruz. (AP Photo/Santa Cruz Sentinel, Dan Coyro)